Will healthcare reform include a public health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance? President Obama campaigned on the promise of a public option, but over the past week he and his top advisers have repeatedly signaled that they aren’t willing to fight for it.

Former Bank of America employee Chris Feener says that little has changed at BoA since the company received billions of dollars in tax-payer money. A number of former workers have accused the company of pressuring its employees to burden consumers with debt and enroll in high fee programs. Feener tells us his story. Then, efforts to bring aid to Gaza face increasing resistance from the Israeli military. Is the Free Gaza Movement effective? Finally, the first amendment battle of Bay Area journalist Josh Wolf.

School’s out, but state programs, many that impact teenagers, have been slashed throughout the country from NY to California. 80 percent of state parks in California could be closed and an estimated one million children will be without healthcare if the governor doesn’t sign a budget. At the same time the number of homeless families is rising.

Author, writer and activist Eduardo Galeano on the political moment, life, and literature. Can video games change the world? We'll talk to game designers who are making video games about issues like poverty, global warming, and the Middle East. And finally this weeks Got Docs.

You don't have to be a media junky to know that conservative talk radio dominates the airwaves. Several years ago, however, Air America Radio tried to change the rules of the game. But many who were hoping that the network would be an antidote to Limbaugh, Savage, et al. are disappointed.

It’s not easy being a kid these days. It’s getting more and more difficult to get basic, entry-level work, college tuition costs continue to rise faster than just about anything on the market, and the military looks to ramp up its recruiting in preparation for another surge in Afghanistan. The national teen unemployment rate is now estimated at about 24 percent, as the economy remains in decline and out of work

Blame the Wolf, a provocative play performed by the Al Rowwad Palestinian youth theater group, revisits the story of Little Red Riding Hood. But this time there’s a twist. As the trial unfolds, is the wolf really the one to blame? Dr. Abdel Fattah Abu-Srour, founder and director of the Al Rowwad in the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank, says that theater is a way of exploring and challenging

Blame the Wolf, a provocative play performed by the Al Rowwad Palestinian youth theater group, revisits the story of Little Red Riding Hood. But this time there’s a twist. As the trial unfolds, is the wolf really the one to blame? Dr. Abdel Fattah Abu-Srour, founder and director of the Alrowwad in the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank, says that theater is a way of exploring and challenging the

Think the internet should be a space free of corporate run media holdings? Well, congress just introduced the internet freedom preservation act of 2009. It would make net neutrality as it's called the law. You can find out more about the law and how you can help at savetheinternet.com.

Melvin van Peebles was fighting for self determination in the media back in the 1960s and 1970s. Filmmaker, artist, and writer he's just published a new graphic novel, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha and still fighting for freedom of expression.